Why can’t we just have peace?
Everyone seems to be talking about war coming soon to us. Why is that? Why can’t Ukraine and Russia just have peace? Why would Russia ever attack NATO? This and more answered in this human-written blogpost
How to make a game as toxic as possible
To make a game toxic, we first must put the player in the right headspace: Anger, frustration and hate are the emotions we’re aiming for. We could do that by just having dumb mechanics which are inherently frustrating to use, or perhaps glitches and bugs. This is a start, but directs our player’s emotion at…
Was ist eine Streichmühle? (Definition)
Streichmühle, f., historische wind- oder wasserbetriebene Maschine in der Textilherstellung, vgl. → Streichgarn
Fair use in the EU – sort of (ECJ Metall auf Metall/Pastiche/Sampling ruling)
It’s happened! After well over 20 years of litigation, the Metall auf Metall case still isn’t done! But it at least now has gotten another ruling. I previously talked about the Advocate General’s opinion on this case, but now the judges have judged. So let’s take a look at what they have judged. What on…
Make Art, not Content – Or: AI Slop doesn’t threaten Artists, Capitalism does
As we look around ourselves, more and more of the internet is being spammed with AI content. Human content creators are ringing the alarm bells; their livelihood is under threat, their content which they spent hours making being drowned under a sea of quick-and-easy generators of text, images and videos. Yet, as new as AI…
Muse Group: Enshittifying everything it touches
Starting in 2017, Ultimate Guitar – then a guitar tabs website developed from a Kaliningrad office – started going on a shopping spree: They acquired MuseScore, an open source notation program, Audacity, the Audacity audio editor, Hal Leonard, a sheet music publisher, StaffPad, AmpKit, and others. Today, they’re known as Muse Group, have abandoned their Russian…
Corporations are agentic AGI
There are some good arguments in favor of understanding corporations as artificial, intelligent meta-(or super-)organisms: Corporations are aware of their predators (government agencies) and aim to extinguish them (see regulatory capture) Corporations prioritize their own survival over secondary goals (profits, growth, etc). To avoid death, it may shed massive amounts of its body (close stores,…
How to balance copyright and the freedom of the arts
Copyright law is unfair and a bit silly. We can fix it to be the tool creators deserve. And now might be the time to get ready to take action.
Even the institutions are waking up to the fact that copyright law is unfair
The balance between the freedom of the arts and rewarding existing creators with exclusive rights is manifestly wrong
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